Wavefront correction with a ferrofluid deformable mirror: Experimental results and recent developments

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7015, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Brousseau, Denis ^a   Borra, Ermanno F ^a   Thibault, Simon ^b   Ritcey, Anna M ^c   Parent, Jocelyn ^a   Seddiki, Omar ^a   Déry, Jean Philippe ^c   Faucher, Luc ^c   Vassallo, Julien ^a   Naderian, Azadeh ^a  

^a CENTRE D OPTIQUE   (Canada)

^b ImmerVision   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aberration compensation; Adaptive optics; Deformable mirrors; Liquid mirrors

Indexed keywords

ABERRATION COMPENSATION; DEFORMABLE MIRRORS; FERROFLUID DEFORMABLE MIRRORS; LIQUID MIRRORS; LOW ORDER; MAGNETIC LIQUIDS; RMS WAVEFRONT ERROR; TRIANGULAR ARRAYS; WAVEFRONT CORRECTION;

ABERRATIONS; ADAPTIVE OPTICS; DEFORMATION; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; LASER PULSES; LIQUIDS; WAVEFRONTS;

MIRRORS;

EID: 66949145463     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.787840     Document Type: Conference Paper

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